To help us prepare for the days ahead, this ritual is an opportunity to ground in the thing that nobody can take away from us, no matter how bad things get: the gift of being a creature. If the language of “magic” works well for you, we can use that; if you’d prefer to consider this an exercise in psychological and somatic processing using tools drawn from the work of Eugene Gendlin, Starhawk, Halko Weiss, and Bessel Van Der Kolk, that’s also fine.